# biga
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bīga.

### Noun

biga (plural bigas or bigae)
* (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.

#### Translations
### See also

* quadriga

### Anagrams

* Baig, bagi, gabi

## Basque
### Noun

biga ?
* calf

### Numeral

biga
* two

## Catalan
### Etymology

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Portuguese viga, Spanish viga, Occitan biga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbi.ɣə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbi.ɣa]
* Rhymes: -iɡa

### Noun

biga f (plural bigues)
* beam, as in a large piece of wood or metal serving a structural role in a building

### Further reading

* “biga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “biga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Cebuano
### Noun

biga
* semen
* pre-ejaculate
* lust; a feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal

### Verb

biga
* to be in heat
* to be randy; to feel horny
* to lust

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin bīga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.ɡa/
* Rhymes: -iɡa
* Hyphenation: bì‧ga

### Noun

biga f (plural bighe)
* (historical) chariot (two-wheeled)
* (baking) pre-ferment sponge, similar to poolish (bread starter)
** 2018, Piergiorgio Giorilli, Il grande libro del pane, Kindle edition, Milan: Gribaudo, →ISBN:Gli impasti a base di biga hanno particolari proprietà viscoso-elastiche e risultano particolarmente lisci ed estensibili. […] Infatti spesso per realizzare le ricette, come pasta dura o pane pugliese, vengono utilizzate tutte e due, sia biga sia pasta di riporto, in modo da sfruttare le peculiarità di ambedue le paste.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* bigotta

## Jamaican Creole
### Adjective

biga
* comparative degree of big
** 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Luuk 15:25:Di biga bwai pikni did de a grong. […]The bigger boy was in the field. […]

## Latin
### Etymology

bi- +‎ iuga

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbiː.ɡa/, [ˈbiːɡä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbi.ɡa/, [ˈbiːɡä]

### Noun

bīga f (genitive bīgae); first declension
* chariot (two-wheeled)
* (in the plural) pair of horses

#### Usage notes

Exclusively used in the plural in pre-Augustan Latin. Seneca and Pliny were the first writers to use it in the singular.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* bīgātus

#### Related terms

* biiugus

#### Descendants

* Albanian: bigë
* Aromanian: bigã
* Catalan: biga
* → English: biga
* Italian: biga
* Occitan: biga
* → Polish: biga
* Portuguese: biga
* Romanian: bigă
* Spanish: viga

### References

* “biga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* biga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “biga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “biga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Laz
### Noun

biga
* Latin spelling of ბიგა (biga)

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* pīga

### Etymology

Related to Old Norse bingr (“heap”) (English bing), from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”), see also Sanskrit बहुल (bahula, “abundant”).

### Noun

bīga f
* pile, heap

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: bīge
** Alemannic German: Biigi
** German: Beige
* → Italian: bica

### References

* ↑ Buck, C. D. (2008). A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages. United States: University of Chicago Press, p. 887

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbi.ɡa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iɡa
* Syllabification: bi‧ga
* Homophone: Biga

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin bīga. First attested in the first half of the 19th century.

#### Noun

biga f
* (Ancient Rome, historical) biga (Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from German biegen. Doublet of Boh and Bug.

#### Noun

biga f
* (printing) crease (element of the die-cutting machine used to emboss the bend line of the paper)

##### Declension
### References

* ↑ biga in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

### Further reading

* biga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* biga in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biga.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbi.ɡɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbi.ɡɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbi.ɡa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbi.ɡɐ/ [ˈbi.ɣɐ]
* Hyphenation: bi‧ga

### Noun

biga f (plural bigas)
* chariot (type of vehicle)

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbiɡa]

### Noun

biga f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of bigă

## Sardinian
### Etymology

Probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”)

### Noun

biga
* (Campidanese) beam

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbiɡaʔ/ [ˈbiː.ɣɐʔ], /ˈbiɡa/ [ˈbiː.ɣɐ]
* Rhymes: -iɡaʔ, -iɡa
* Syllabification: bi‧ga

#### Noun

bigà or biga (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)
* (carpentry) girder

##### See also

* kahab-an
* pingga
* sepo
* tahilan

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbiɡaʔ/ [ˈbiː.ɣɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -iɡaʔ
* Syllabification: bi‧ga

#### Noun

bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)
* giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
    Synonyms: malabiga, badyang

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbiɡaʔ/ [ˈbiː.ɣɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -iɡaʔ
* Syllabification: bi‧ga

#### Noun

bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)
* flat lowland
    Synonyms: lambak, libis

### Etymology 4

Possibly Chinese.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbiɡaʔ/ [ˈbiː.ɣɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -iɡaʔ
* Syllabification: bi‧ga

#### Noun

bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)
* damp or swampy ground
    Synonyms: labon, latian, tanlak, tunlak

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbiɡaʔ/ [ˈbiː.ɣɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -iɡaʔ
* Syllabification: bi‧ga

#### Noun

bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)
* root of words meaning "glibness of the tongue", such as malabiga
    Synonyms: daldal, kadaldalan
* root of words meaning "fault-finding habit", such as malabiga
    Synonym: pagkamapintasan

##### Derived terms

* magmalabiga
* malabiga
* pagkamalabiga

### Anagrams

* ibag, giba, igba, gab-i, gabi